I went to the midnight release of this book. I paid for my book at 12:05 am and was home reading by 12:15 am. My mother called at 12:20 am to see if wI went to the midnight release of this book. I paid for my book at 12:05 am and was home reading by 12:15 am. My mother called at 12:20 am to see if we had been able to get the book yet. She was in Illinois so they were an hour behind us and still had 40 minutes to go. I read until 3 am, turned the book over to my son and went to bed. I was done reading it by 2 in the afternoon. 10 hours. It was amazing. The cooler thing that I learned from the author though wasn't Harry's fate, which I won't reveal here. But that the author is God! Or God-like I guess I should say. The book revealed to me the secret of how to be a great storyteller. Rowling used little, often insignificant details from her earlier books and gave them purpose and meaning in this book. Something you probably overlooked but when you went back and re-read the previous books you said oh my gosh, that is amazing. It was at that moment I realized how an author writes a story. How they plant the foreshadowing and details into a tale. It made me want to be a writer even more than I already did....more